Fujifilm XPro1 first images

[photohiker]

The Xpro1 arrived on Friday. So far, really enjoying it.

These shots are jpegs shot with the standard film simulation (Provia, I think) with just a small touch in LR - levels and saturations. RAWs are not yet supported by LR, but the jpeg output is good enough for me not to worry about it at this stage. Silkypix is included with the camera, but not motivated to learn another raw converter.

All shot with the 35/1.4 Haven't tried the other lenses yet. The camera close focus "Macro" mode was a surprise for me and the results quite good.





This one handheld, 1/55 at 6400ISO:




Larger versions and other samples in my XPRo1 Samples Gallery.

[the foto fanatic]

Excellent colours in the flora - Fuji really do that well.

Was your camera purchased here or did you import it?

[photohiker]

Purchased here. Also, 2 year warranty on the camera when purchased from a Fuji "Pro" dealer, No idea if all Fuji dealers are "Pro" but worth knowing if you're buying one.

Stock started arriving at the photo retailers early last week. As I understand, most was taken by pre-orders.

[biggerry]

nice, i am interested in a zoom crop on the sunset one, that looks nice and clean for a high iso. What is with the lights in teh lower right corner, they look almost like motion blur?

[photohiker]

nice, i am interested in a zoom crop on the sunset one, that looks nice and clean for a high iso. What is with the lights in teh lower right corner, they look almost like motion blur?

It is motion blur - I must have rotated the camera slightly as I took the shot. Looks weird, the blur changes angle depending where it is in the frame. Must. use. tripod.

Here is the crop. No changes except crop (697x465) and make it 100% quality jpeg (others were 80%). LR is set to "Sharpen for Screen", "Standard" on export. Any NR here is the in-camera jpeg engine.

[Matt. K]

Hope to see more examples from you soon. I'm very interested in the camera and will wait for further comments from you about your feelings towards the camera.

[biggerry]

It is motion blur - I must have rotated the camera slightly as I took the shot. Looks weird, the blur changes angle depending where it is in the frame. Must. use. tripod.

ahh that explains it.. not a bad image and good noise control really... the colours seem pretty good too..

[photohiker]

Tonights effort. Found a spare kirk style plate that sort of fits, so I can use the tripod.


35mm f5.6 10seconds 200ISO. Overexposed, backed off in LR. Looks better over at zenfolio (larger)

The mass of lights middle right is Adelaide Airport. The bright floods lower left is Waite Oval. Behind that you can see more floods, Unley High School Oval.

Manually focused. Apparently this is nearly impossible according to dpreview. I will say that it is fly by wire, and therefore unfamiliar, but it does work, is finely controllable. OVF is (obviously) useless for manual focus, but the EVF has a 10x zoom that helps a lot. Although I've not been a fan of EVF's this one is quite good. My last experience was the accessory EVF on the GF1 which was barely usable having low resolution, lousy colour, and a lot of lag.

On the other hand, the tripod mount is not the best feature of the XPro1...



Not only is it not centred on the lens, it is very close to the battery/SD Card door, so changing cards or batteries is not possible on the tripod or with a QR plate attached. RRS is going to produce a bottom plate/LPlate for the camera that allows access through the plate (they have already done this for the X100).

I've now turned off the LCD and use the VF for everything except chimping and some settings. Out of the box, the Fn button is set to ISO which suits fine, so just about everything I might regularly need is within reach and controllable via the VF. I'm especially liking the aperture control at the base of the lens.

[photohiker]

Don't want to overload this thread with images, but there is a couple more on zenfolio from today.

Focusing. I visited the Lower Adit of the (local to me) abandoned Weal Watkins mine. The entrance is under a little pergola affair and I took a shot of it at 1/30 f2.8 6400iso. I then moved into the entrance and supported the camera on the steel gate, selected f8 and attempted to focus. I could not see anything past a few feet. The camera focused on the side of the wall a few metres in and I took a shot: 4.5 seconds. I didn't expect it to focus and the shot looks pretty clean.

There's also a shot of a back lit hillside bathed in sunlight from a break in the clouds, and a closeup of some dying gum leaves.

The 35mm is a keeper. Its real sharp, and it's got very smooth bokeh. Biggest issue: challenging to focus in macro mode handheld - too easy to move out of the focal area, especially if you're taking photos of moving objects like foilage. (goes for all Macros, really)

I've unpacked the 18mm, will take that out tomorrow.